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Sony's 'Music Unlimited' Service Shutting Down After Failing to Emerge as Viable iTunes Alternative

The only thing playing on Sony's music service is the soundtrack to The Interview.
 
bpeeps said:
Sony's 'Music Unlimited' Service Shutting Down After Failing to Emerge as Viable iTunes Alternative

You don't even have to read the article, it's in the title.
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But it doesn't get to Apple until thirteen words into the title - what kind of crazy-long attention span do you expect people to--

SQUIRREL!!!
 
HenryDJP said:
That's really too bad, honestly. I tried out the trial of Music Unlimited on my PS4 and it's actually a very nice user interface and great library of songs. Sony just charged way too much for it. It was $9.99/mo. Wasn't worth paying. That's $120/year just for music streaming.
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They should charge the same as Netflix which is from $7.99 a month on the american website. Pretty good value then for unlimited music streaming, Sony records have some good names on their books too.

but this is Sony all over, it does a p*** poor job at advertising anything! just as well the Playstation brand is a house hold name as no one would know of it otherwise. Although to be fair to Sony they DO advertise the Playstation games a fair bit.
 
As a former Sony employee, I found this to be very amusing.

Sony didn't run Music Unlimited: it was outsourced to another company (you got a Sony bill and Sony authentication, but the rest of it was all done by the other company.)

So it's kinda (painfully) obvious that Sony never really put their heart into making the "killer" music service: they just felt they needed one so they bought one off the shelf.
 
So - from a business perspective, what's the lesson here? Was it worth it for Sony to invest in trying to launch their own platform, or should they save all of that development cost and pay the App Store, Play Store, Amazon tax?
 
You're only forced to deal with Apple if you want to make money. If you don't, leave. It's pretty simple.

If you can do it better and cheaper than Apple, go for it. The iTunes music store has only been around for 12 years. How hard could it be to come up with a competitor?

Hah.
 
Like I'd sign up for anything Sony after their cavalier attitudes about security? Really? :rolleyes:
 
they have made a partnership with spotify
spotify for ps3 and ps4 will be called "playstation music"

so, a win win situation for sony, playstation users and spotify :cool:
now i will can play drive club with bg music support and use my spotify library for that

couldn't be more happy
 
ButteryScrollin said:
Sony had a music service?
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Same thing here.... I had no clue they had one.

It is funny, some companies are like that.

I started to work yesterday in a TV station that started working last October and will be on air by March. That is fast.

But I used to work in another company that has been developing a TV channel since 2011 and still not on air! They have months in programming waiting for someone to buy it but their marketing person just do not care. Some companies are just like that. At Sony, they had no promotion.
 
Consultant said:
I am usually bearish on music services:

Unlimited music stream usually don't make enough for the artists.
Users don't get to keep anything when the service closes.
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It's sort of hard for me to feel bad for artists on this one. They still make tons of money on concerts, merchandising, etc. Taylor Swift is a perfect example, she claims to make no money on the music she streams from Spotify, yet, her concerts sell out to packed stadiums and she can't possible sell her album anywhere for less than $12 and change and make money. It's called greed, every time the music industry gets greedy they lose out. I would imagine, if the artists push too much, someone will develop the next Napster.
 
on the other hand this is bad for Beats Music, Spotify is now on another device that has sold in the millions, giving it even more chance to really dwarf those Beats Music subsriber numbers
 
I've seen this before...

This is like what happened to their mini-discman player, proprietary encoding, and Windows-Only software all over again.

When will they learn their lesson?

Stick to Professional Gear and consumer products like Blu-Ray, HDTV, and surround sound please!
 
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